The Super Mario Bros. movie has been delayed by a few months
The movie with the inexplicable cast has been bumped to next April
There’s a famous quote in the video game industry, often misattributed to Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, that goes something like this: “A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.” The idea is that if you delay the release of a video game, you will—in theory—have more time to make it good, but if a game isn’t good and you release it quickly anyway, it’s obviously not going to get any better.
Well, animation company Illumination seems to have taken that to heart, as it has delayed the release of its Super Mario Bros. movie by a few months. Instead of December 21 of this year, it will now be released in the United States on April 7, 2023. That news supposedly comes from Miyamoto himself, with the Nintendo Of America Twitter account posting a message “from him” that makes it sound like this is just something that him and Illumination boss Chris Meledandri (we assume he’s “Chris-san” and not Chris Pratt) came up with rather than something motivated by an issue with the film or a crowded schedule or any of the other reasons that studios have for delaying things.